El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. The WPA road gangs employ men from all the villages. In fact, it is through such jobs as these that many families are able to pad out their impossibly low farm income. Anglos who sneer at the Spanish-Americans for accepting WPA work whenever they can get it forget that there is almost no other alternative for these people, that other employment is apt to be brief and impermanent and that they cannot hope to live by farming alone.
El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. The WPA road gangs employ men from all the villages
- 4/1941
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This primary source comes from the Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
National Archives Identifier: 521235
Full Citation: 83-G-41839; El Cerrito, San Miguel County, New Mexico. The WPA road gangs employ men from all the villages; 4/1941; Photographic Prints Documenting Programs and Activities of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and Predecessor Agencies, ca. 1922 – ca. 1947; Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Record Group 83; National Archives at College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/el-cerrito-san-miguel-county-new-mexico-wpa-road-gangs/, May 28, 2026]
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